Marcus' question of "discrimination power" is definitely a key here.
It's equally important, but raises additional issues when applied to identifying the more complex characters of real undefined individual physical systems. I think it might be a concept of upper and lower bounds that's is needed, topological rather than Y/N set theory. It will apparently take, for example, many more years for people to reach consensus on a reasonably useful and reliable indicator of emergence. We all agree it's a phenomenon, and have for years, but just don't apparently know where to start to critically identify it. You need a different kind of lasso, it seems, than what's commonly used to rope that one. Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:32 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source. > > > Michael Agar wrote: > > "Reflexivity" is one of those terms... Nice and neat in set theory, > > a relation R is reflexive in set A iff for all a in A aRa > is true. > > > Question is, what is the discrimination power of R? Does it ever say > false? (Unlike, say, Freud's theories or religious dogma), > and if so > does it report `true' and `false' in any pattern that rarely > would occur > by chance? Are their precise metrics for the features that R draws > upon, or does the meta-analyst just have that convenience? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
